China Miéville'in between equal rights: A marxist theory of international law adlı çalışması üzerine notlar

Abstract

This article discusses and examines the potentials offered by China Mieville's book for the theory of international law in general and for the Marxist approaches to law in particular. Mieville's book critically examines existing theories of international law and provides the reader a starting point to develop an alternative Marxist approach on the basis of commodity form theory. While Mieville satisfactorily illuminates the reader on various deficiencies of bourgeois international law theory, his attempt falls into the same traps Pashukanis did before. Following China Mieville's attempt to employ political economy to make better sense of the functions of international law-in the world capitalist system, this article also aims to explore the possible contributions of the Marxist literature on international law to the book.